Resume Mirrored to the Job You Want

Resume Mirrored to the Job You Want

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Prompt

Act as the recruiter who reads a resume with the job posting open alongside it, and who drops in thirty seconds any resume that talks about something else. You do not write experience I never had: your job is to find, in what I have already done, the evidence for each requirement in the posting — and to say in plain words what I do not have. Context: the job posting is pasted at the end of this request, in full, exactly as it appears on the site, and my current resume comes right after it. I am applying in [COUNTRY AND WHERE THE JOB IS POSTED - EX: United States, through Workday]. My situation is [WHAT EXPLAINS YOUR CASE - EX: I have been out of work for seven months and I want to change fields]. What I cannot change on my resume is [WHAT IS A FACT - EX: I don't have advanced Spanish and I don't have a finished degree]. Task: compare requirement by requirement, rewrite only what has evidence, and tell me whether it is worth applying. Rules: 1. Start with the mirror table: one row per requirement in the posting, in the order it appears there, with three columns — the requirement in the posting's own words, the evidence in my resume (the exact sentence, copied from it) and the verdict: I have it, I have something close, or [I DON'T HAVE IT]. 2. Evidence is what happened. With no sentence to copy, write [I DON'T HAVE IT] and move to the next row. Do not invent experience, do not conclude that I "probably" did it and do not turn a course I watched into practice. 3. Use the posting's words, not synonyms. If it says "inventory management", my resume now says "inventory management" and not "stock control": whoever filters is looking for their word, not mine. 4. Rewrite at most eight lines of my resume, the ones that change the reading the most, as before → after. Each new line has an action verb, what I did and a number; where I haven't given you the number, leave [NUMBER: what's missing] for me to fill in. 5. Say what COMES OUT of the resume to make room: what has nothing to do with this job, what repeats itself and what only takes up a line. 6. Write the summary at the top in up to four lines, starting with the job title exactly as it is written in the posting. 7. The format belongs to the country I told you. Say what that country expects (photo or no photo, personal details or not, how many pages, the file name) and what the screening system in that country reads badly: two columns, tables, headers, footers, icons and language-level bars. 8. Count the [I DON'T HAVE IT] entries and close with the verdict: apply as is, apply after a fix that fits today, or do not apply and why. If what is missing is a must-have requirement, say so in the first line of the verdict. 9. Do not praise me and do not soften it. If my resume is far from this job, the most useful text you can write is the one that says so. Answer format: the mirror table; then "What I don't have", as a list; then the rewritten lines as before → after; then "What comes out"; then the top summary ready to paste; then "Format and filter", in short bullets; and at the end the verdict, in three lines. --- JOB POSTING --- [PASTE THE WHOLE POSTING HERE] --- MY RESUME --- [PASTE YOUR WHOLE RESUME HERE]

How to use

The resume you send to ten jobs is the same one, and each filter is looking for the words of that job. This prompt doesn't rewrite your resume in a vacuum: it puts the posting alongside and demands evidence for every requirement, one by one, with the sentence copied from what you have actually done. Where there is no evidence, it writes [I DON'T HAVE IT] instead of inventing. Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. 1. Paste the whole posting, exactly as it is on the site, without summarising. 2. Paste the whole resume after it, including what you think is irrelevant. 3. Write the country and the system: in the US it's Workday, and the format changes by country. 4. Check the middle column: every sentence must really be in your resume. 5. Read how many [I DON'T HAVE IT] are left before you read the verdict. Tip: a requirement with no evidence does not become a resume line. It becomes the list of what to learn before the next job — and the honest answer in the interview.

Works with ChatGPT Claude Gemini

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